Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do I need (live audio recording)

2007-08-23 Thread Matthew Larsen
TBH From my experience professional recording on linux simply isnt there yet (well, at reasonable prices anyway). However some pointers: Hardware wise I would most definately reccomend a professional soundcard. Try the M-Audio 2496 for a cheap decent prof card (about £60-70). Whatever card you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do I need (live audio recording)

2007-08-23 Thread Matthew Larsen
oh yeah forgot about that :-). I have a Behringer 1202 (£60). Nice little thingymabob. Ps a good site to find this stuff is www.dolphinmusic.co.uk On 23/08/07, Pete Stean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the mixing desk front, one of the little Behringer jobs with 4 XLR inputs would probably do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do I need (live audio recording)

2007-08-23 Thread Doug McMillan
On the software front, Ardour is definitely the most complete DAW. www.ardour.org I think it's in the repositories. Audacity is great for just editing short sections of sound, or for a quick way to get ideas down, but Ardour is much better for multitracking. On 23/08/07, Matthew Larsen [EMAIL

[ubuntu-uk] What do I need (live audio recording)

2007-08-17 Thread Mark Harrison
Hi all, For the last few years, I've been using a Tascam Portastudio to do live recordings, then exporting the files down to the PC for editing. It strikes me that technology's probably moved on sufficiently, that I should just be carrying around a laptop. I'd much prefer this to be an Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do I need (live audio recording)

2007-08-17 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 17/08/07, Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I need advice on are: - Advice on what audio editing software I need (I'm coming from an Adobe Audition / CoolEdit) background, and the key features I need are FFT-based noise reduction, track volume normalisation, and in-line editing.)